Post by pegasus on Aug 14, 2011 19:53:02 GMT -7
14 Aug
8-)Good evening to my fellow history buffs from Tuxy and me.
Today is 226th day of 2011 with 139 days left in the year.
Today in History:
1040—Duncan I, King of Scotland, was murdered by MacBeth.
1248—the rebuilding of the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany, began after being destroyed by fire.
1457—the first book ever printed was published by a German astrologer named Faust. He was thrown in jail while trying to sell books in Paris. Authorities concluded that all the identical books meant Faust had dealt with the devil.
1464—Pope Pius II died at Ancona leading a crusade against the Turks.
1498—Columbus landed at the mouth of the Orinoco River, Venezuela.
1559—Spanish explorer Tristan de Luna y Arellano entered Pensacola Bay, Fla.
1605—the Popham expedition reached the Sagadahoc River in present-day Maine and settled there.
1756—Daniel Boone married 16-year-old Rebecca Bryan.
1756—French commander Louis Montcalm took Fort Oswego, New England, from the British.
1793—republican troops in France laid siege to the city of Lyons.
1805—a peace treaty between the US and Tunis was signed on board the USS Constitution.
1814—a comic opera by Rossini, Turk in Italy, premiered at La Scala, Milan.
1842—the Seminole War ended and the Indians were removed from Florida to Oklahoma.
1846—Henry David Thoreaucwas jailed for tax resistance.
1848—the Oregon Territory was established made up of today’s Oregon, Washingotn, Idaho and parts of Montana and Wyoming.
1862—Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith began his invasion of Kentucky. He moved his troops out of Knoxville, Tenn., and toward Cumberland Gap. The plan was to draw Union troops away from Chattanooga, Tenn.
1862—a temporary Union jail in Kansas City collapsed. Confederate guerrilla leader William 'Bloody Bill" Anderson's 14-year-old sister was killed and his other two sisters were injured. Pro-Confederate William C. Quantrill exacted revenge on Lawrence, Kan. on August 21. The band killed 150 residents and much of the town was burned.
1864—Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's troops began attacking Confederate fortifications around Deep Bottom Run.
1873—Field and Stream magazine was first published.
1880—the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany was completed after 632 years of rebuilding, only to be damaged again during World War II. The largest Gothic style cathedral in Northern Europe was first built on the same site in 873 A.D., but was destroyed by fire in 1248.
1888—a patent for the electric meter was granted to Oliver B. Shallenberger of Rochester, Pa..
1896—gold was discovered in Canada's Yukon Territory. Within the next year more than 30,000 people rushed to the area to look for gold.
1900—international forces consisting of eight nations, including 2,000 US Marines, entered Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreigners.
1908—a race riot erupted in Springfield, Ill., as a white mob began setting black-owned homes and businesses on fire; at least two blacks and five whites were killed in the violence.
1909—the newly opened Indianapolis Motor Speedway held its first event, a series of motorcycle races
1917—the Chinese Parliament declared war on Germany and Austria during World War I.
1919—about 1 million tons of ice and rock broke off of a glacier near Mont Blanc, France. Nine people were killed in the incident.
1936—Rainey Bethea became the last man to be publicly executed in the US as he was hanged in Owensboro, Ky., for raping 70-year-old Lischia Edwards.
1936—basketball was held in the Olympic Games for the firct time in Berlin, Germay. The US defeated Canada 19-8.
1941—The US Congress appropriated the funds to construct the Pentagon (approximately $83 million). The building was the new home of the US War Department.
1941—Pres. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter, a statement of principles that renounced aggression, endorsed the right of people to choose their form of government and called for improving the economic well-being of nations.
1942—Dwight D. Eisenhower was named the Anglo-American commander for Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa.
1944—the federal government allowed the manufacture of certain domestic appliances to resume on a limited basis.
1945—Pres. Truman announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending the war.
1947—Mildred ‘Babe’ Didrikson Zaharias turned golfing professional in order to accept $300,000 for a series of golf movies.
1947—Pakistan became independent of British rule.
1951—William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, died at age 88 in Beverly Hill, Calif.
1953—the whiffle ball was invented when David N. Mullany tried to come up with a ball that would curve every time it was thrown. You can still buy the fat-and-ball set for a few dollars.
1959—the first meeting was held to organize the American Football League (now part of the NFL as the American Football Conference.)
1959—Jordan and the United Arab Republic reopened diplomatic relations.
1961—the Brandenburg Gate was closed between East and West Berlin.
1962—a US mail truck was held up in Plymouth, Mass. and the robbers got away with more that $1.5 million dollars.
1969—the New York Mets were 9-1/2 games behind the league-leading Chicago Cubs and began a comeback that launched the phrase, “You Gotta Believe,” as they began a drive that took them to the National League pennant and the World Series Championship (over the Baltimore Orioles). It was the first championship for the “Amazing” Mets franchise which began in 1962.
1969—British troops arrived in Northern Ireland to intervene in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics.
1971—the ruler of Bahrain, HH Shaikh Isa bin Salman AlKhalifa, declared Bahrain's independence. He announced the termination of all political and military treaties with Great Britain.
1973—the “secret” US bombing of Cambodia came to a halt. The halt marked the official end to 12 years of combat in Indochina by the US.
1976—a charity softball game began for the Community General Hospital in Monticello, NY. The game was eventually called off after 30 hours and 356 innings, beginning at 10 a.m. and called because of ran and fog at 4 p.m. the next day. The final score was Gager's Diner's 491 to Bend 'n Elbow Tavern's 467.
1980—People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was incorporated.
1980—workers went on strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland - a job action that resulted in the creation of the Solidarity labor movement.
1981—Pope John Paul II left a Rome hospital, three months after being wounded in an attempt on his life.
1981—five members of Liberia's People's Redemption Council were executed for participating in the attempted assassination of their head of state Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe.
1981—Karl Boehm, conductor, died in Salzburg, Austria, two weeks before his 87th birthday
1986—US officials announced that Victor Cortez Jr., a US Drug Enforcement agent, had been abducted, interrogated and tortured by Mexican police.
1987—Mark McGwire set the record for major league home runs by a rookie when he connected for his 49th home run of the season.
1989—Bon Jovi's New Jersey album became the first US album to be released legally in the Soviet Union. The Russian label Melodiya paid the group with a truckload of firewood since rubles can't leave Russia.
1989—South African President P.W. Botha announced his resignation after losing a bitter power struggle within his national party.
1991—the Justice Department accused General Electric of fraud for billing the Pentagon $30 million for the non-existent sale of F-16 parts to the Israeli military.
1992—the US announced that emergency airlifts of food to Somalia would begin. The action was being taken to stop mass deaths due to starvation.
1992—Wayne Newton filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
1992—Tony Williams of The Platters, died at age 64 from diabetes and emphysema.
1992—John J. Sirica, the federal judge who presided over the Watergate trials in the 1970s, died at age 88 in Washington, D.C.
1993—Pope John Paul II denounced abortion and euthanasia as well as sexual abuse by American priests in a speech at McNichols Sports Arena in Denver, Colo.
1994—eight children who were left alone died in an early morning house fire in Carbondale, Il.
1994—international terrorist "Carlos the Jackal" was captured in Sudan and the next day was extradited to France.
1995—Shannon Faulkner became the first female cadet in the history of The Citadel, S.C. 's state military college, but quit the school less than a week later.
1995—the Grateful Dead decided to cancel their fall our in the wake of Jerry Garcia’s death.
1996—the Republican National Convention in San Diego nominated Bob Dole for president and Jack Kemp for vice president.
1996—in Peru, 35 people were electrocuted when a high tension line was knocked down by a rocket during a fireworks show.
1997—an unrepentant Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.
1998—a US federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled that the Food and Drug Administration had no authority to regulate tobacco. The FDA had established rules to make it harder for minors to buy cigarettes.
1999—[Harold Peer Henry] Pee Wee Reese, 1984 Hall of Fame shortstop (Brooklyn/LA Dodgers, 1940-58) & sportscaster (CBS, NBC), died at age 81 of prostate & lung cancer in Louisville, Ky.
2000—Valujet was ordered to pay $11 million in fines and restitution for hazardous waste violations in the crash that killed 110 people in 1996.
2000—the Los Angeles police fired pepper spray and rubber bullets to clear a crowd of 9,000 people when a free concert by Rage Against the Machine turned violent.
2000—a Russian submarine Kursk sank to the bottom of the Barrent Sea. There were 118 sailors on the nuclear-powered vessel and all of the crew were pronounced dead on August 22nd.
2001—the Red Hot Chili Peppers canceled a concert planned in Israel. The concert had been planned for August 28th, but was canceled due to security concerns. The U.S. State Department had issued an advisory the recommended that U.S. citizens not travel to Israel.
2001—20 people detained in riots at the Group of Eight summit in Italy the previous month were ordered released by a Genoa court — 15 Austrians, three Americans, a Slovak and a Swede.
2002—in Texas, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin surrendered to San Antonio police. A warrant had been issued for his arrest stemming from a domestic violence complaint on June 15, 2002.
2002—Israel indicted Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian political leader, on charges of orchestrating attacks that killed dozens of Israelis.
2003—the most extensive blackout in North American history hit the northeastern US and part of Canada; 50 million people lost power.
2005—a Cypriot plane with 121 on board crashed in Greece.
2006—Cuban state television aired the first video of Fidel Castro since he stepped down as president to recover from surgery, showing the bedridden Cuban leader talking with his brother Raul as well as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.,
2006—Israel halted its offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas as a UN-imposed cease-fire went into effect after a month of warfare that killed more than 900 people.
2006—two Fox News journalists were kidnapped in Gaza.
2007—Typhoon Flossie threatened the Big Island of Hawaii with winds and rain just hours after a 5.3 magnitude earthquake rock Hawaii.
2007—a bomb blast derailed a Russian train, terrorism was suspected.
2008—Russian troops advance into Georgia in violation of a truce.
2009—Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a Charles Manson follower who tried to assassinate Pres. Ford in 1975, was released from a Texas prison hospital after more than three decades behind bars..
2010—a day after weighing in on the issue, Pres. Obama repeated that Muslims had the right to build a mosque near New York's ground zero, but said he was not commenting on the "wisdom" of such a choice.
2010—eight people leaving a party at a downtown Buffalo, N.Y., restaurant were shot, four fatally, including a Texas man who'd returned to his hometown to celebrate his first wedding anniversary. (Former gang member Riccardo McCray was later convicted of first-degree murder and attempted murder, and sentenced to life without parole.)
2010—a truck overturned during an off-road race in the Mojave Desert, killing eight spectators.
2010—a 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook the Mariana Islands in the Pacific.
2010—Manmohan Singh became the 3rd longest serving Prime Minister of India.
8-)Good evening to my fellow history buffs from Tuxy and me.
Today is 226th day of 2011 with 139 days left in the year.
Today in History:
1040—Duncan I, King of Scotland, was murdered by MacBeth.
1248—the rebuilding of the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany, began after being destroyed by fire.
1457—the first book ever printed was published by a German astrologer named Faust. He was thrown in jail while trying to sell books in Paris. Authorities concluded that all the identical books meant Faust had dealt with the devil.
1464—Pope Pius II died at Ancona leading a crusade against the Turks.
1498—Columbus landed at the mouth of the Orinoco River, Venezuela.
1559—Spanish explorer Tristan de Luna y Arellano entered Pensacola Bay, Fla.
1605—the Popham expedition reached the Sagadahoc River in present-day Maine and settled there.
1756—Daniel Boone married 16-year-old Rebecca Bryan.
1756—French commander Louis Montcalm took Fort Oswego, New England, from the British.
1793—republican troops in France laid siege to the city of Lyons.
1805—a peace treaty between the US and Tunis was signed on board the USS Constitution.
1814—a comic opera by Rossini, Turk in Italy, premiered at La Scala, Milan.
1842—the Seminole War ended and the Indians were removed from Florida to Oklahoma.
1846—Henry David Thoreaucwas jailed for tax resistance.
1848—the Oregon Territory was established made up of today’s Oregon, Washingotn, Idaho and parts of Montana and Wyoming.
1862—Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith began his invasion of Kentucky. He moved his troops out of Knoxville, Tenn., and toward Cumberland Gap. The plan was to draw Union troops away from Chattanooga, Tenn.
1862—a temporary Union jail in Kansas City collapsed. Confederate guerrilla leader William 'Bloody Bill" Anderson's 14-year-old sister was killed and his other two sisters were injured. Pro-Confederate William C. Quantrill exacted revenge on Lawrence, Kan. on August 21. The band killed 150 residents and much of the town was burned.
1864—Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's troops began attacking Confederate fortifications around Deep Bottom Run.
1873—Field and Stream magazine was first published.
1880—the Cologne Cathedral in Cologne, Germany was completed after 632 years of rebuilding, only to be damaged again during World War II. The largest Gothic style cathedral in Northern Europe was first built on the same site in 873 A.D., but was destroyed by fire in 1248.
1888—a patent for the electric meter was granted to Oliver B. Shallenberger of Rochester, Pa..
1896—gold was discovered in Canada's Yukon Territory. Within the next year more than 30,000 people rushed to the area to look for gold.
1900—international forces consisting of eight nations, including 2,000 US Marines, entered Beijing to put down the Boxer Rebellion, which was aimed at purging China of foreigners.
1908—a race riot erupted in Springfield, Ill., as a white mob began setting black-owned homes and businesses on fire; at least two blacks and five whites were killed in the violence.
1909—the newly opened Indianapolis Motor Speedway held its first event, a series of motorcycle races
1917—the Chinese Parliament declared war on Germany and Austria during World War I.
1919—about 1 million tons of ice and rock broke off of a glacier near Mont Blanc, France. Nine people were killed in the incident.
1936—Rainey Bethea became the last man to be publicly executed in the US as he was hanged in Owensboro, Ky., for raping 70-year-old Lischia Edwards.
1936—basketball was held in the Olympic Games for the firct time in Berlin, Germay. The US defeated Canada 19-8.
1941—The US Congress appropriated the funds to construct the Pentagon (approximately $83 million). The building was the new home of the US War Department.
1941—Pres. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issued the Atlantic Charter, a statement of principles that renounced aggression, endorsed the right of people to choose their form of government and called for improving the economic well-being of nations.
1942—Dwight D. Eisenhower was named the Anglo-American commander for Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa.
1944—the federal government allowed the manufacture of certain domestic appliances to resume on a limited basis.
1945—Pres. Truman announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally, ending the war.
1947—Mildred ‘Babe’ Didrikson Zaharias turned golfing professional in order to accept $300,000 for a series of golf movies.
1947—Pakistan became independent of British rule.
1951—William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, died at age 88 in Beverly Hill, Calif.
1953—the whiffle ball was invented when David N. Mullany tried to come up with a ball that would curve every time it was thrown. You can still buy the fat-and-ball set for a few dollars.
1959—the first meeting was held to organize the American Football League (now part of the NFL as the American Football Conference.)
1959—Jordan and the United Arab Republic reopened diplomatic relations.
1961—the Brandenburg Gate was closed between East and West Berlin.
1962—a US mail truck was held up in Plymouth, Mass. and the robbers got away with more that $1.5 million dollars.
1969—the New York Mets were 9-1/2 games behind the league-leading Chicago Cubs and began a comeback that launched the phrase, “You Gotta Believe,” as they began a drive that took them to the National League pennant and the World Series Championship (over the Baltimore Orioles). It was the first championship for the “Amazing” Mets franchise which began in 1962.
1969—British troops arrived in Northern Ireland to intervene in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics.
1971—the ruler of Bahrain, HH Shaikh Isa bin Salman AlKhalifa, declared Bahrain's independence. He announced the termination of all political and military treaties with Great Britain.
1973—the “secret” US bombing of Cambodia came to a halt. The halt marked the official end to 12 years of combat in Indochina by the US.
1976—a charity softball game began for the Community General Hospital in Monticello, NY. The game was eventually called off after 30 hours and 356 innings, beginning at 10 a.m. and called because of ran and fog at 4 p.m. the next day. The final score was Gager's Diner's 491 to Bend 'n Elbow Tavern's 467.
1980—People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was incorporated.
1980—workers went on strike at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland - a job action that resulted in the creation of the Solidarity labor movement.
1981—Pope John Paul II left a Rome hospital, three months after being wounded in an attempt on his life.
1981—five members of Liberia's People's Redemption Council were executed for participating in the attempted assassination of their head of state Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe.
1981—Karl Boehm, conductor, died in Salzburg, Austria, two weeks before his 87th birthday
1986—US officials announced that Victor Cortez Jr., a US Drug Enforcement agent, had been abducted, interrogated and tortured by Mexican police.
1987—Mark McGwire set the record for major league home runs by a rookie when he connected for his 49th home run of the season.
1989—Bon Jovi's New Jersey album became the first US album to be released legally in the Soviet Union. The Russian label Melodiya paid the group with a truckload of firewood since rubles can't leave Russia.
1989—South African President P.W. Botha announced his resignation after losing a bitter power struggle within his national party.
1991—the Justice Department accused General Electric of fraud for billing the Pentagon $30 million for the non-existent sale of F-16 parts to the Israeli military.
1992—the US announced that emergency airlifts of food to Somalia would begin. The action was being taken to stop mass deaths due to starvation.
1992—Wayne Newton filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
1992—Tony Williams of The Platters, died at age 64 from diabetes and emphysema.
1992—John J. Sirica, the federal judge who presided over the Watergate trials in the 1970s, died at age 88 in Washington, D.C.
1993—Pope John Paul II denounced abortion and euthanasia as well as sexual abuse by American priests in a speech at McNichols Sports Arena in Denver, Colo.
1994—eight children who were left alone died in an early morning house fire in Carbondale, Il.
1994—international terrorist "Carlos the Jackal" was captured in Sudan and the next day was extradited to France.
1995—Shannon Faulkner became the first female cadet in the history of The Citadel, S.C. 's state military college, but quit the school less than a week later.
1995—the Grateful Dead decided to cancel their fall our in the wake of Jerry Garcia’s death.
1996—the Republican National Convention in San Diego nominated Bob Dole for president and Jack Kemp for vice president.
1996—in Peru, 35 people were electrocuted when a high tension line was knocked down by a rocket during a fireworks show.
1997—an unrepentant Timothy McVeigh was sentenced to death for the Oklahoma City bombing.
1998—a US federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled that the Food and Drug Administration had no authority to regulate tobacco. The FDA had established rules to make it harder for minors to buy cigarettes.
1999—[Harold Peer Henry] Pee Wee Reese, 1984 Hall of Fame shortstop (Brooklyn/LA Dodgers, 1940-58) & sportscaster (CBS, NBC), died at age 81 of prostate & lung cancer in Louisville, Ky.
2000—Valujet was ordered to pay $11 million in fines and restitution for hazardous waste violations in the crash that killed 110 people in 1996.
2000—the Los Angeles police fired pepper spray and rubber bullets to clear a crowd of 9,000 people when a free concert by Rage Against the Machine turned violent.
2000—a Russian submarine Kursk sank to the bottom of the Barrent Sea. There were 118 sailors on the nuclear-powered vessel and all of the crew were pronounced dead on August 22nd.
2001—the Red Hot Chili Peppers canceled a concert planned in Israel. The concert had been planned for August 28th, but was canceled due to security concerns. The U.S. State Department had issued an advisory the recommended that U.S. citizens not travel to Israel.
2001—20 people detained in riots at the Group of Eight summit in Italy the previous month were ordered released by a Genoa court — 15 Austrians, three Americans, a Slovak and a Swede.
2002—in Texas, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin surrendered to San Antonio police. A warrant had been issued for his arrest stemming from a domestic violence complaint on June 15, 2002.
2002—Israel indicted Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian political leader, on charges of orchestrating attacks that killed dozens of Israelis.
2003—the most extensive blackout in North American history hit the northeastern US and part of Canada; 50 million people lost power.
2005—a Cypriot plane with 121 on board crashed in Greece.
2006—Cuban state television aired the first video of Fidel Castro since he stepped down as president to recover from surgery, showing the bedridden Cuban leader talking with his brother Raul as well as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.,
2006—Israel halted its offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas as a UN-imposed cease-fire went into effect after a month of warfare that killed more than 900 people.
2006—two Fox News journalists were kidnapped in Gaza.
2007—Typhoon Flossie threatened the Big Island of Hawaii with winds and rain just hours after a 5.3 magnitude earthquake rock Hawaii.
2007—a bomb blast derailed a Russian train, terrorism was suspected.
2008—Russian troops advance into Georgia in violation of a truce.
2009—Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a Charles Manson follower who tried to assassinate Pres. Ford in 1975, was released from a Texas prison hospital after more than three decades behind bars..
2010—a day after weighing in on the issue, Pres. Obama repeated that Muslims had the right to build a mosque near New York's ground zero, but said he was not commenting on the "wisdom" of such a choice.
2010—eight people leaving a party at a downtown Buffalo, N.Y., restaurant were shot, four fatally, including a Texas man who'd returned to his hometown to celebrate his first wedding anniversary. (Former gang member Riccardo McCray was later convicted of first-degree murder and attempted murder, and sentenced to life without parole.)
2010—a truck overturned during an off-road race in the Mojave Desert, killing eight spectators.
2010—a 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook the Mariana Islands in the Pacific.
2010—Manmohan Singh became the 3rd longest serving Prime Minister of India.